Revived “yellow vest” protests against the government of President Emmanuel Macron took place in France on Saturday, news wires reported. Hundreds of demonstrators faced police in a tense stand-off in the French city of Nantes. Police responded with tear gas after some protesters threw projectiles.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that it would require a "feat of strength" in order for Germany to reach its climate goals by 2030 as planned, news wires reported. "Climate change is a challenge for humanity. In order to deal with this challenge, it will require a real feat of strength," Merkel said in the video posted on the chancellery's official website. She pointed out that passing climate legislation was necessary in order for the country to be able to achieve its goal of producing 65% of energy from renewable sources by 2030.

Germany is ready to take in a quarter of migrants who reach Italy by sea, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in remarks published on Friday, ahead of EU talks on immigration later this month. EU interior ministers will meet in Malta on 23 September in a new attempt to find a temporary solution on sharing out the care for migrants who reach the bloc’s shores.

In the last decade, EU Member States have led the global shift toward renewable energy and set up the world’s largest emissions trading system to price carbon and reduce reliance on more polluting fuels. However, the bloc’s rules on energy taxation have not changed for more than 15 years. The European Union is thus considering new energy taxes to meet its climate targets, Reuters reports.

The gap between Britain and the European Union in Brexit talks is “very wide” and British proposals on the Irish border fall very far short of what is needed, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Friday.

Paris and four other French cities on Thursday banned the use of synthetic pesticides within their boundaries, as an anti-chemicals movement that began in the countryside gains momentum. Lille in the north, Nantes in the west, Grenoble in the southeast and the central city of Clermont-Ferrand joined Paris in implementing the ban, citing the need to safeguard biodiversity and public health.

Mass protests, disrupted cross-Channel trade and chaos threaten Britain in case of a no-deal Brexit, according to a report released by the government last Wednesday. Called “Operation Yellowhammer” and prepared six weeks ago just days after Boris Johnson became prime minister, it forms the basis of government no-deal planning, Reuters reported.

The EU should give Italy more time to cut debt and support a plan to reinvigorate investment, PM Giuseppe Conte said after talks with the Commission's President-designate Ursula von der Leyen. He visited Brussels on Wednesday, a day after his new government won the second of two confidence votes in the upper house of parliament and can start to work.

Revived “yellow vest” protests against the government of President Emmanuel Macron took place in France on Saturday, news wires reported. Hundreds of demonstrators faced police in a tense stand-off in the French city of Nantes. Police responded with tear gas after some protesters threw projectiles.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that it would require a "feat of strength" in order for Germany to reach its climate goals by 2030 as planned, news wires reported. "Climate change is a challenge for humanity. In order to deal with this challenge, it will require a real feat of strength," Merkel said in the video posted on the chancellery's official website. She pointed out that passing climate legislation was necessary in order for the country to be able to achieve its goal of producing 65% of energy from renewable sources by 2030.